When Pablo Fracchia learned that Mia had been abandoned after having suffered an intestinal perforation, he decided to try to become her father.
Pablo Fracchia is 37 years old and, for two decades, he had dedicated himself to providing aid in disaster situations. He dealt with floods in Argentina, a fire in Cromañón, the avalanche that devastated Tartagal and the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon. However, six months ago, he left all that behind to become the father of a cute little girl.
Mia’s story has a rough beginning: at only four days old, she had gone through a near-death experience and then spent an entire year in a hospital in La Plata, Argentina without a family to look after her.
Fracchia, who held a degree in Social Work, heard little Mia’s story and decided to form a single-parent family with her. Nothing was easy, since Pablo is gay, but he always wanted to be a father.
“It’s not often that gays can become parents, and one of the obstacles in my coming out of the closet was accepting that I was going to have to give up that dream. I wanted to be straight and that made me feel very guilty. I was helped by a psychologist who told me: Why wouldn’t you want to be straight if that would solve all your problems? You wouldn’t suffer discrimination, ridicule, you wouldn’t have any issues marrying and you could have children,” Pablo told Infobae.
In October 2019, Pablo received a call that would change his life. A girl of a year and 10 months who’d suffered an intestinal perforation was alone. No one in her family could take care of her. Along with 4 other applicants, heterosexual couples, Pablo fought to be able to adopt her.
“First, I spoke to my family to see if they were willing to help me. Everyone said yes right away. I went to the interview with my mom, and they said they were going to let me know the next day. Then, we went to eat, without much hope to be honest. However, in the middle of lunch, the phone rang. It was the law clerk. I thought I had forgotten a document, but she said: ‘Are you still with your mom? We don’t want you to receive the news alone: this call is to tell you that we chose you,’” he told Infobae.
Pablo couldn’t stop crying. He was ready to be a father and the next day he’d meet his daughter.
“I think we fell in love instantly,” he said. Within two weeks, Mia was already set up in Pablo’s house.
“When I met her, she didn’t walk or talk. I found out that she had almost died in one of the surgeries and that she’d gone through the entire post-surgery process alone. That’s when I understood what the judge had told me: ‘We chose you because we felt that Mia needed someone to hug her for an entire year.’ And that’s what I did from that day on, hug her. Now she walks, talks, dances, plays. She discovered that she can rest because there’s someone else there to protect her,” Pablo told the Argentine portal.
At the end of the day, they both got what they deserved: unconditional love.